We have been using HoloBuilder to capture as-built conditions on a huge hospital project, in order to maintain the federated BIM dataset (BIM to FM / Asset Information Management). 360 photos are a very quick and easy way to capture the context of building elements, but not their geometry.

 

This tip comes from one of our local HoloBuilder experts, Lisa Verschoor:

How to move across an updated drawing/sheet in HoloBuilder and have the already existing waypoints attached to the earlier version carry over automatically

    • Open HoloBuilder
    • Select sheet you want to replace (in example pic below I’m replacing sheet 020-H-003)
    • Click on the “Exchange this sheet” button (two opposing arrows)

 

    • Prompt will ask “Do you really want to replace the current Sheet with a new one?”
    • Click Ok
    • Now drag and drop updated sheet
    • Select High Res option
    • Ok
    • All done! 🙂

Moustafa Khalil has freely released an Android app and a Revit listener addin that essentially accomplishes a site-to-Revit connection for RFI input into Revit. Essentially, you install the Revit addin, setup the FTP connection, login on the Android app and then take some pictures of RFIs from site. You then add some comments and data to the photo submission, and this is automatically captured into Revit through the FTP site and Revit addin.

Its an interesting approach to this problem. Amazing what someone can accomplish when they think a little outside the box and connect a few different technologies. Nice work.

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Download links from Moustafa:
I have uploaded the two applications Mobile and Revit on these 2 sites:
Mobile app: http://a360.co/1yZfNDb
Revit APP: http://a360.co/1vWKFhW

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